As everyone knows, the Political Forum is not the main focus of this website. However this particular forum generates the most arguments and mud slinging. Given the topics that are covered that is somewhat understandable.

But we would like to keep the entire site a welcome and open place for all people. To help in this endeavor we have adopted some rules for posting in the Political Forum. Any post that is in non-compliance will be deleted. No warnings, no comments, just gone. Complaints about this procedure will only get you a response pointing you to this thread.

We hope that these new procedures (any differences from the forum rules posted in the FAQ section ONLY apply to the Political Forum) will create a place for us to discuss Political topics in a civil and productive manner.

The following will not be tolerated(resulting in your post being deleted):
1. Cursing at a poster.
2. Name calling. (this includes calling someone an idiot/libidiot/moron/etc...)
3. Posting a reply after you were called a name in which you call the offending poster a name as well.
4. Quoting a post in which any of the above rules were broken (If you want to respond to a valid point of a post that contains an offense, just edit out the offense from the quote before you post your reply.)

We hope that these measures will allow this Forum to become a place to discuss political issues while maintaining an appropriate level of decorum.